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Leopold von Ranke

1795 - 1886

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Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and the analysis of historical documents. Building on the methods of the Göttingen school of history, he was the first to establish a historical seminar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopold von Ranke has received more than 764,020 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Leopold von Ranke is the 21st most popular historian (up from 22nd in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Germany (down from 235th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Historian.

Leopold von Ranke was a German historian who is most famous for his research and writing on the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

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  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Leopold von Ranke ranks 21 out of 561. Before him are Thomas Kuhn, Mircea Eliade, William of Tyre, Cassius Dio, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Arnold J. Toynbee. After him are Procopius, Ibn Kathir, Fernand Braudel, Arrian, Johan Huizinga, and Saxo Grammaticus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Leopold von Ranke ranks 3. Before him are James K. Polk, and Frederick William IV of Prussia. After him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, John Keats, Thomas Carlyle, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Antonio José de Sucre, Ary Scheffer, Dred Scott, Alexander Griboyedov, and Ernst Heinrich Weber. Among people deceased in 1886, Leopold von Ranke ranks 4. Before him are Franz Liszt, Ramakrishna, and Ludwig II of Bavaria. After him are Emily Dickinson, Chester A. Arthur, John Deere, Amilcare Ponchielli, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Alexander Ostrovsky, Ilya Ulyanov, and Pierre-Jules Hetzel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Leopold von Ranke ranks 245 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf I of Germany (1218), Paul Heyse (1830), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Carl Schmitt (1888), Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), and Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016). After him are Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Simone Signoret (1921), Albert Kesselring (1885), Alexandra Feodorovna (1872), Kurt von Schleicher (1882), and Friedrich Ratzel (1844).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Leopold von Ranke ranks 2. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717). After him are Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Adam of Bremen (1100), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Aby Warburg (1866), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Christoph Cellarius (1638), and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876).

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